WVPU Hosts Mentoring, Student Awards Event

By Amanda Cooke

Webster Vienna’s Career Services Team and the Webster Vienna Alumni Association recently hosted the farewell event for 46 members of its 2024-2025 mentoring program.

WVPU’s Mentoring Program, launched in 2021, provides career development support for WVPU undergraduate students in their third and fourth year and qualifying graduate students. Webster Vienna alumni support students’ professional goals by interacting with them through career-oriented conversations and meetings, exchanging ideas and sharing knowledge of career paths and insights to life after graduation.

During the farewell event, members of the program and alumni attendees gathered on WVPU’s campus for welcome remarks by Melanie Smith (MBA'14) of the Vienna chapter of the Webster University Alumni Association.

Janette Donner, International Atomic Energy Agency employee and President of the Women in Nuclear IAEA chapter, provided the keynote address.

Alexandra Deubner, Senior Career Service Officer at WVPU, moderated a panel discussion with mentors and mentees. Dr. Samuel R. Schubert, Associate Director, and Student Resource Center Officer Jennifer Sowerby hosted the Student Life Awards after the panel discussion.

WVPU’s 2025 Student Life Awardees are:

• Outstanding Student Organization: International Relations and Diplomacy Club
• Student Government Association Award: Mariia Konycheva
• Campus Voice Award: Tamar Kadagidze
• Outstanding Freshman: Emily Oswald
• Outstanding Sophomore: Nelly Hashemi
• Outstanding Junior: Yuliia Zavorotna
• Outstanding Senior: Mamiza Mucanheia
• Outstanding Graduate: Mina Peruničić

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Webster Vienna is now accepting program applications for the 2025-2026 academic year.

• Apply to be a mentor.
• Apply to be a mentee.

For questions about Webster Vienna’s Mentoring Program, send an email to mentoring@webster.ac.at.

All alumni are invited to join the Webster Vienna Alumni Association’s online community at alumni.webster.ac.at.